"I spent the past year building this in my spare time because I got tired of enterprise security tools that cost $50K/year and don't understand Linux."
You should have written it as a learning opportunity. To think you can replace such tools seems rather arrogant -- Experienced professionals with decades of experience worked on them. You're just 1 person, and it seems like you may be new.
"TheProtector is a comprehensive security monitoring tool that actually runs on the systems we use (Linux) instead of being a Windows-first afterthought. Built it entirely on a $500 laptop because I believe good security shouldn't require unlimited budgets."
After reviewing the code it doesn't seem very comprehensive. As some others have pointed out it appears to be mostly AI-generated. Again, as a learning opportunity this isn't a bad exercise, but I also probably wouldn't brag about it being comparable to tools that were made by teams of people who are likely far more knowledgeable when it comes to designing such tools.
"Been running it on my own systems for months. Catches the stuff that matters and doesn't flood you with false positives. If you hate expensive security theater as much as I do, might be worth a look."
I should also probably address the elephant in the room: Your github account is only 2 days old (as of this writing). Additionally the initial commit to the repository was made on July 23rd, 2025. Based on the commit history (and based on the files that were committed) it looks like this was created with AI in the span of a couple days.
I'm sure a 'security-minded' individual such as yourself sees the problem here: a monolithic script from some random person on the internet purporting to have developed something to help secure my system... I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole.
Something about this post stinks to me. Smells like somone trying to phish for installs. Seems like something an intelligence agency would do: post something like this in several places hoping somone runs it.
"TheProtector is a comprehensive security monitoring tool that actually runs on the systems we use (Linux) instead of being a Windows-first afterthought. Built it entirely on a $500 laptop because I believe good security shouldn't require unlimited budgets." After reviewing the code it doesn't seem very comprehensive. As some others have pointed out it appears to be mostly AI-generated. Again, as a learning opportunity this isn't a bad exercise, but I also probably wouldn't brag about it being comparable to tools that were made by teams of people who are likely far more knowledgeable when it comes to designing such tools.
"Been running it on my own systems for months. Catches the stuff that matters and doesn't flood you with false positives. If you hate expensive security theater as much as I do, might be worth a look." I should also probably address the elephant in the room: Your github account is only 2 days old (as of this writing). Additionally the initial commit to the repository was made on July 23rd, 2025. Based on the commit history (and based on the files that were committed) it looks like this was created with AI in the span of a couple days.
I'm sure a 'security-minded' individual such as yourself sees the problem here: a monolithic script from some random person on the internet purporting to have developed something to help secure my system... I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole.
Something about this post stinks to me. Smells like somone trying to phish for installs. Seems like something an intelligence agency would do: post something like this in several places hoping somone runs it.